BONANZA FLAT CONSERVATION AREA

Located at the top of Guardsman Pass, these mostly undeveloped over-1500 acres, are home to miles of trails, wildlife habitat, and alpine lakes. Included on this conservation easement is the award-winning Bloods Lake Trail, quaking aspen groves, and wildflowers.  
In late 2016 the property was offered for sale to Park City for $38 million dollars; Park City citizens passed a $25 million-dollar bond to acquire the property which led to the creation of a coalition of multiple non-profit organizations, three cities and three counties to raise the remaining $13 million-dollar gap. The non-profit organizations, led by Utah Open Lands, were Wasatch Backcountry Alliance, Friends of Alta, Mountain Trails Foundation, Summit Land Conservancy, Save Our Canyons, The Nature Conservancy, Trails Utah, Sierra Club, Wasatch Mountain Club and Winter Wildlands Alliance. In June 2017, with the funds having been successfully raised with the largest collaborative fundraising effort in local history, Park City purchased the land with the intent to permanently conserve it with a Conservation Easement held by Utah Open Lands.

The Conservation Easements defined and secured through this easement include: 1) the relatively natural and critical habitat for numerous wildlife game species, high priority conifer and aspen forests, abundant high alpine wetlands, lakes, ponds, and streams; 2) the scenic, aesthetic and open space; 3) critical watershed land which safeguards water qulity for drinking water for the Wasatch Front and Wasatch Back; 4) historical land area for the public's enjoyment of the unaltered nature; and 5) public, recreational and educational values through trailhead facilities and sustainable trails accessible to th egeneral public.

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